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BENJAMIN I. DAY, 0F VAN DERBURG COUNTY, INDIANA. LerterslPatmz-No, 85,732, dated January 12, 1869.

mPRovEn answer.' ron TURNmG STREET-cans.

yThe Schedule referred to in theselLett-ers Patent and making part of the same.-

4of Vanderhurg, and State of Indiana, have invented anew and improved Means of Turning Street-Cars;

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, 'clea;r,and exact description thereof, which will enable' those skilled in the art to make and use the1 same, reference being had to the `accompanying drawings,

Y forming part of this specification.

Like letters indicate like parts on the drawing. {lhis invention relates to an improved method of Tturning street-cars, whereby turn-tables can be di'spensed with, and the cars turned anywhere on the route, Tand is made of iron` or other suitable material. My plan to accomplish the aforesaid object is to let down a pivot at the rear end ofthe car, and a truck at the forward end of the car, so as to lift the wheels gf the car clear ofthe track, by means of which it can .be turned.'

. The pivot consists of a bar or rod, of' sufficient strength, shapedv as shown in Figure 4, the prongs of which, af a', pass up through the bottom'of the car, andv work in tubes or collars A, Figures 1 and 2, which tubes or collars are fastened to the`wall or body of the- 'car.

The pivot-leg, B, figs. 2'and 4, terminates in an adjustable disk or foot-piece, by means of a ball-andscrews, cut in hubs of hand-wheels D, `Figures 1, 2, L3, and 4, which hand-wheels are provided with handholds or knobs, to facilitate their being turned, E, iigs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, andare secured in position by supports l?, fastened to bottom of car, and so shaped as not to interfere with the movement ofthe wheels.

' The' truck',"workinglike.the pivot, consists of a rod, or bar, of sufficient strength, shaped as shown in g. 3, and terminates in legs on each side, pral vided with small wheels, H, which wheels are set to run in a eir-` cle, the centre 'of whichis the pivot B, igs. 2 and 4.

It is intended the wheels H H should be as far apart as convenient, to guard against upsetting. A

Having thus described lmy invention, `I wish it to be understood that I do not broadly vclaim ai wheeled truck and pivot for replacing or turning cars upon the track, such having been used before; but

What I do claim 'as my invention, and desire to seL cure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a street or other railroad-car, of the tubes or collars A, the'truck, g. 3, and pivot, iig. 4, with 'screw-prongs a'- a, hand-wheels D, small wheels H, placed tangentially to a circumference struck from socket C. as a centre, the pivot-pin B, and socketand disk C, the whole constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Y BENJAMIN I. DAY. Witnesses:

' JAMES M. SOANTLDI,

J on S. WINN. 

